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Pros And Cons Of Franklin D. Roosevelt And The United States

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“October 29th: When freedom walks here, Nisei can head home at last. When will they be free?”- from Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude. On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan. As a result, Japanese Americans were shipped off to internment camps in the west coastal area. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the U.S. government decided that their citizens had to be prisoners for the safety of America. It should have been far more crucial for America to consider the civil liberties of the Japanese Americans rather than the common good of the nation because they were also victims of Pearl Harbor, the government based their decisions out of war hysteria and it intensified racial prejudice. The government responded solely on war hysteria. The
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